Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 5:57pm
: Mark! Techtonliens! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Deano de los Muertos: Evening Mark and all 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
DjLorraine: Time to Techtonic! ♥ 6:01pm
TDK60: Hello Mark. 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hey all! 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
ultradamno:

↳ Song: "Theme from Techtonic" by "Kirk Pearson"

I loved the testimony of what it felt like to get hit with that sandwich...imagine if it had been a spicy burrito or a calzone   6:02pm
David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids here gathered. 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Huzzah! I see 6,000 pledges to the station and almost half a million dollars pledged. ♥ 6:02pm
PaulRobeson1925: Warm greetings, one and all! ♥ 6:03pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: God evening Mark and fellow travelers. ♥ 6:06pm
MIster Mark:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:02

Woot!   ♥ 6:08pm
New Dave: Abilene Texas, where my dear Mom lives...
I visited her last month and we drove around a center being built now.
One square mile. That's 640 acres.
Over 1000 workers slapping it together as I type.
Has it's own natural gas fired power plant, and will suck up 5 million gallons of water there per day...
The city gave them the land and tax breaks for what may be 300 maintenance jobs once it is online. ♥ 6:10pm
Mark Hurst: Hi ultra, Deano, DjL, TDK60, Bas, DiL, KfHP, PaulR, Peter, Mr Mark, and New Dave - welcome! 6:10pm
MarciB: There was another AI apologist story in this week's New Yorker. Sigh. ♥ 6:11pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ New Dave @6:08

5 million gallons of water a day, that is bananas. Does Abilene have a lot of fresh water it doesn't need? 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
ultradamno: Google wants to be in my state so bad www.msn.com...   6:13pm
?: all this water that is supposedly used for cooling - that heat isn't gone, or used productively, it is just relocated to the water, which then raises the temp of the oceans 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Good evening Mark Hurst and all!!! ♥ 6:14pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ @6:13

That is true... a couple of years ago I covered a data center that Facebook placed in a (for now) cold part of Scandinavia. The heat doesn't magically disappear into the snow! 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
Webhamster Henry: Hello electricity users! ♥ 6:15pm
Mark Hurst: Hi WtSG, hi webham ♥ 6:16pm
dale: maybe data centers should be built in arctic areas. 🤖 ♥ 6:17pm
Handy Haversack: Mark and the Techyons!

Great to see you at Record Fair, Mark!

And Will and Webhamster Henry and all!

🤖 ♥ 6:17pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:17

Hi Handy! 🤖 ♥ 6:18pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:17

Hope you guys dug the Blank Account set, Will!   ♥ 6:18pm
New Dave:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:11

There have been serious drought years recently, to the point where Uncle Phil not only had to buy hay to feed his cattle, he actually had to buy water to keep them alive.
This has been a relatively rainy year, so people seem to have forgotten... ♥ 6:18pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:17

likewise, nice seeing you at the 'fair! 🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:18

It was rad, wasn't expecting 2 bass players 🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:19

That's how they getcha! ♥ 6:19pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ New Dave @6:18

Imagine if during the recent drought, someone in town announced that they were building a new addition to their house and would be drawing 5,000,000 gallons of water every day. What would have happened? 🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
chresti: Hi Mark and techticians! 🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
ultradamno: Holidays are coming, artificially nationalpost.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:21pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:19

K8 and Creamo, I was digging the tattoo sounds with the set also! ♥ 6:21pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ chresti @6:20

Hi chresti, welcome ♥ 6:22pm
MIster Mark: Harry Shearer played an insidiously catchy AI generated song he 'wrote' on Le Show last weekend. 🤖 ♥ 6:23pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:21

Totally, agreed! 🤖 ♥ 6:24pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Data center should get the Treated Waste Water   6:24pm
Imgur: Why don’t the datacenters use the grey water? ♥ 6:24pm
dale: give the poo water to the poo purveyors. 🤖 ♥ 6:24pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Aquifers are often "fossil water" in many areas. 🤖 ♥ 6:24pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Brondo it's got what plants crave   ♥ 6:26pm
New Dave:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:19

It's Texas, Mark. Freedom.
Show 'em the Flag, boys!

They have waste water in Abilene but mostly spoken for apparently...

  6:27pm
traven: The carrot on the stick: "This will create X amount of jobs." 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ traven @6:27

... that AI will then replace. 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
DjLorraine: The gray water smells. 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
ultradamno: Why not invite the vampire in? He's a count! 🤖 ♥ 6:30pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ DjLorraine @6:28

Treated waste water is supposed to be 'clean' but grey water is either not treated or slightly treated 🤖 ♥ 6:30pm
ultradamno:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:28

...n'robots www.detroitnews.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
ultradamno: NDAs played into last night's tech heavy Simpsons ep 🤖 ♥ 6:38pm
Will thee SG OCNY: NDA's in this instance should be illegal. The people should know what us happening in their own communities...   6:38pm
traven: Visit Joe's giant data center. We give out free bottled water on our guided tours! ♥ 6:40pm
Mark Hurst: For more on NDAs and data centers, listen to the episode from August 14, 2023 - Pat Garofalo on Amazon's data-center scam: www.wfmu.org... 🤖 ♥ 6:44pm
ultradamno: Nobody knows what magnets are www.msn.com...   ♥ 6:45pm
New Dave: Abilene golf courses may be closing soon. They are first in line for waste water (gotta keep the greens green!)
However, wild hogs are destroying the courses and nobody so far has figured out how to stop them.
Old farts can just play virtual golf there and avoid the dangerous hogs, some of which weigh over 300 lbs and can kill you. ♥ 6:46pm
MIster Mark:

↳ New Dave @6:45

Go hogs 6:46pm
morphe': Disney used such a strategy to build Disney World, FL= using small subentities to buy up the properties to keep purchase prices down with many small purchases not bring notice it was Di$ney and keep price$ low.. There is an old Book"How Disney Devoured the Universe" or some such.. ♥ 6:47pm
Ike: And *lots* of people *still* ignore the truth and argue that we should have bribed Amazon to "bring HQ2 here" when the whole thing was a big bluff! 6:47pm
morphe': Correct details:
Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World

Carl Hairiness

www.goodreads.com...

🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
Will thee SG OCNY: What are the natural predators of the hogs? If the Simpsons have taught us anything we must keep sending in the next animal in to help out with the problem. That is until the alpha animal runs amuk... Then that problem must be solved. 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
ultradamno: I like to think of wild hogs as a new feature to playing golf...like a windmill, or a ramp. 🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
ultradamno:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:48

Maybe those giant pythons that are in Florida now ♥ 6:50pm
dale: saudi arabia would be left in the dust and grow poor without trump selling them computer chips. well, except for all the oil thing. 6:50pm
morphe':

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:48

alligators and un-natural humans.. 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ ultradamno @6:49

Oooh that sounds like fun. ⛳ Golfin with Hogs, Pythons, and Gators! 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
chresti:

↳ dale @6:16

Or another planet   6:52pm
traven:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:50

Maybe the golfers can use hand grenades instead of golf balls. ♥ 6:52pm
MIster Mark: Tollbooth is our lesson learned this week. 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
Will thee SG OCNY: It's CEO week at the wild Hogggs golf course. Depending on the draw it may be extended ♥ 6:54pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ ultradamno @6:49

Let's see how El Chumpo plays on those courses. It might reduce the membership at his golf resorts. 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
tim: Thanks Mark! Informative conversation! ♥ 6:55pm
MIster Mark: Thanks, Mark! 📻✌️🙏✊ 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thanks, Mark! ♥ 6:56pm
San Pedro Girl: Hi Mark and all. I've arrived just in time to say thank you . I'll have to listen to the interview in the archives. 6:56pm
morphe': ps Film

Tambien Las LLuvias
Even the Rain
=
old film about water in Centra/South America

www.imdb.com...

♥ 6:56pm
PaulRobeson1925: In 1965, could we have stopped the Television and the ills the medium brings about?
In 2025 can we stop the spread of AI and the ills it will bring about?

Entertaining ourselves to death, public discourse in the age of show business baby

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Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark. 6:57pm
morphe': Thanks Mark and all .. 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Mark, Paul, and the accu peeps! ♥ 6:58pm
bleubombersune: Mark and Paul Thanks all stray safe and be well   6:58pm
Bea: Thanks, Mark! Always learn so much! 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
chresti: Thanks Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Paul!   6:59pm
tracy in LA: thx mark, ♥ 7:00pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! ♥ 7:00pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ morphe' @6:56

Thanks. I'll look for it. 🤖 ♥ 7:35pm
Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark, Paul! Time to make the taco soup. Let's see AI do that!